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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Requesting certificates

Based on the certificate templates published, users can request certificates from the issuing CA. I have logged in to an end user's PC and I am going to request a certificate based on the template we created in the previous step.

  1. To do that, go to Run, type MMC | Add/Remove Snap-in... | Certificates, and click on the Add button.
  2. From the list, select the computer account. Once selected, in the next window, select Local computer as the target.

    If the user is not an administrator and only has default permissions, the user will only be allowed to open the Current User snap-in. To open the computer account, MMC needs to be Run as administrator.

  3. Once MMC is loaded, go to the Personal container, right-click, and then follow All Tasks | Request New Certificate.
  4. This will open a new window. Click Next until you reach the Request Certificates window. In there, we can see the new template. Click on the checkbox...
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis